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In a Roman Osteria, by Carl Bloch 1866 🍝 The Danish painter modelled this famous genre scene on that painted by his teacher Wilhem Marstrand, whose Italian Osteria Scene was created in 1848 (image 2)🍷Bloch also lived in Italy between 1859 to 1866 🇮🇹 Both paintings invite the viewer to share food and wine with the characters, although Bloch's male customer (along with the cat??) is less pleased to be interrupted 😅 Images in public domain.
"Porpoise" comes from Latin meaning "Sea Pig" (porcus- piscis) 🐖🐟 It is given this name ("porci marini") in Thomas Moffett's 1655 dietary treatise, Health's Improvement, as it was eaten in medieval and early modern England. Moffett describes how the taste of the porpoise divided opinion, concluding using the phrase "like lips like lettice", meaning 'that which is most mens bane, may be fittest to delight and nourish others' 🥬 This image is a cigarette card from 1889, made to promote the American Allen & Ginter brand of cigarettes 🚬 Image: open access Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Terracotta woman baking bread from 600-480 BC! 🍞 An amazing ancient Cypriot figure, which depicts a woman leaning over an oven, throwing disks of dough onto the hot walls to cook them 🥯 The model oven even includes the hole in the bottom, which allowed air through 🔥 Image OA at the Met Museum.
Good morning - here's a tranquil image to start the week! Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis, Girl with Cherries, c. 1491-95 🍒 The meaning of the painting is disputed, but perhaps the sweet cherries (along with the rich dress) were an appropriate symbol to use in a wedding portrait 👰
Rachel Ruysch, Still-Life with Fruit and Insects 1711 🍇🦋 The best documented woman of the Dutch Golden Age, she grew up painting the collections of her botanist father. Here her skill in depicting these natural subjects is paired with beautiful autumnal fruits 🍑 From 1679, Ruysch trained under Wilhem van Aelst. She became a very popular artist, painting for a growing merchant class 🎨
Goose is a traditional festival food for Michaelmas (starting 29 September), as you can see in this polemical image from 1840, in which politicians are shown feeding the Electorate with promises, prepping them for the slaughter... The Nottingham Goose Fair, which takes place this week (image 2) takes its name from the famous medieval annual market. Geese were brought from far and wide on foot to be sold. They would first arrive into the city through "goose gate", the area around which still keeps this name (image 3)! Image 1 © The Trustees of the British Museum
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